File 600/1905 Pt 3 'Aden Hinterland: Situation; Withdrawal of Political Agent from Dthala; Treaties with Haushabi, Kotaibi and Alawi chiefs' [‎6r] (7/508)

Secret.
No. C-564.
Aden Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. ,
3rd August 1915,
From
Mai or-General Sir George Younghusband, K.C
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Aden,
To
The Secretary to Government,
Political Department, Bombay.
Sir,
With reference to the correspondence ending with your
Memorandum No,1874, dated, the 26th March 1914, I have the
honour to forward herewith, for ratification, 4 copies of
each of the agreements signed by the Alj^gA, Kaushabi and
Tr the Kotaibi Chiefs, and to request that two ratified
copies of each may be returned to me for delivery to the
Chiefs concerned and for this office^ record.
The place in Article IV of the Alawi agreement where
he is to erect a post ought to be Al-Jomala and not Mabaja
which has how been altered*
2. The unusually long delay which has taken place in the
execution of these agreements was due to the dilatoriness
of the Chiefs in coning to Aden, especially the Kotaibi
who held, back until June last, while the Alawi and the
Haushabi c|rae in and signed their agreements in July and
September of last year, respectively. The Kotaibi put off
his coming under one and another pretext but repeatedly
asked for the payment of his stipend from the date of his
signing the original agreement at Lshej on lith June 1913 -
vide paragraph 8 of Colonel Jacob’s letter No*0^241, dated
28th June 1913, He was invariably replied that he would
get no stipend unless and until he had signed the agreement
approved by Government. He came in al7 last in June 1915